A high school art teacher reports her classroom experiences with a new type of chemical paint-alkyds. (SJL)

Described is a art program designed to demonstrate the importance of synthesizing ideas and skills learned in different disciplines. Students designed projects constrained only by the stipulation that these projects had to relate to a discipline other than art. (KC)

Described is a Ceramic Clayathon, the purpose of which was to inspire and infuse spirit through the cross-fertilization of ideas. Four high schools were involved and events included no-handed-clay, tallest clay form, crazy coil, etc. Pictures of winning entries are included. (KC)

As an "ice-breaker" activity for the beginning of the school year, the authors had their students create art products from food. (SJL)

Providing a papermaking unit in the art program taps students' creativity in many ways. (RM)

Described is an eleventh- and twelfth-grade art curriculum which meets four times a week and is largely a conceptual approach to the arts. It is built around a reading and film list and uses as raw materials ourselves and our environment. The lists are not included. (KC)

Described is a secondary school project in the creation of inflatable sculptures, from small forms to large, inhabitable structures. (SJL)

Describes calligraphy activities used with junior high and high school students, based on texts by John Cataldo. (SJL)

A project for elementary school children based on a museum's collection of Alexander Calder's art is described. After studying Calder's works of art, students created their own three-dimensional stabiles, molded clay into animals, and made circus figures from cork, fabric, yarn, and colored paper. (RM)

An elementary school art museum, directed, staffed, and supplied by students, is described. Each year a unifying theme emphasizes the interrelationships of art, music, social science, math, reading, and English. The art students become artists of a selected period and their creations become the museum's collection for the year. (KC)

The author describes how her eighth-grade class created food packaging designs parodying actual supermarket products. (SJL)

Describes an art project that involved blind secondary students in producing a large piece of sculpture for the terrace of their school. (RM)

With a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, teenage art club members made a 20-foot float called "Bad Seed," which they entered in a parade spoofing the Mardi Gras. It had a purple volcano drooling chartreuse lava while giving birth to a huge dragon. (RM)

Described is a program which is both an educational philosophy and the title of a three-year program which began in the Fall of 1979. Designed to integrate art into the curriculum, Arts Are Basic is funded by a $51,000 grant from the Title IVC Elementary and Secondary Education Act. (Author/KC)

Describes an art project in which junior high students are producing a 16mm animated cartoon using stop-action filming of handmade plastic figures on a built-to-scale set. (SJL)